in the Corridors of Canterlot Palace

It amazed Giorno that anyone could navigate through these intricate halls. He could have sworn he walked past the same corner with Celestia three times already. Although something else plagued his mind, he was about to meet the Captains of this world's military forces, according to Celestia's exchange earlier just now.

Trailing behind her was a pain in the ass too, with her enormous size, one step she took was equivalent to Giorno taking a stride. Forcing him to brisk walk every time he started to fall behind, before deciding to just brisk walk all the way instead. Celestia looked back to Giorno. Realizing she was walking way too fast for him to keep up, she slowed down her speed to accommodate his. Turning the fourth corner, Celestia spoke,

"Now, I have to warn you first. The Captains are some that aren't as accepting of the news as I am. I would try to abolish any concerns relating to you being an enemy or having any ill intentions towards Canterlot, and yes, we have had cases before. But it is up to you to clear any worry or doubts that they might have." he nodded, indicating to Celestia that he was listening.

"Good because we've arrived." Celestia stopped in front of two large doors, golden veins and flowers carved out around the borders with the words 'Conference Room' plated onto the doorway, splitting into two-pieces directly down the middle. Using her magic, Celestia opened the doors and walked in. Giorno could see six figures already occupying the room, three unicorns, two pegasuses, and an earth pony. Each with a menacing aura surrounding them and staring at him. Upon seeing Celestia standing next to the doors, all the participants greeted and bowed in unison.

"Your royal highness, good day to you."

"Good day to all of you as well, now. I thank everyone present for attending this sudden meeting, but this is urgent news with the Head Scientist's mind and my involvement with supplying magical power. We managed to open a portal to another world in seek of aid. This is Giorno Giovanna. He is part of a race of highly intelligent beings called Humans that could help us potentially end the war." gesturing with her hand to Giorno, all heads turn to face him. Taking this cue as a sign to introduce himself, he bowed before regaining his posture.

"It's a pleasure to meet all of you. I hope we can get along." In response to his greeting, a white unicorn with a blue mane stood up from his seat and walked over to him. Dawning lavender plated armor with gold trimming around the edges, underneath he seems to be wearing a full-body compression colored in black. Stopping in front of him, Giorno had to crane his neck up slightly to look at him in the eyes, the 6-foot stallion looking down at the 5-foot 7' blonde. He reached out his pale right hand. Giorno glanced down before peering back up to the gold plated stallion and shook his hand.

"Pleased to make your acquaintance Giorno Giovanna. My name is Shining Armour, Captain of the Royal Guards, and overall in charge of Equestria's Military Forces."

" Likewise, Captain"

"Let me introduce the other Captains and Heads of their branches. The yellow pegasi mare over there is Lieutenant Spitfire of the Wonderbolts, the fastest flyers in Equestria." turning to face the standing mare, she wore the same uniform as the rainbow tailed Lieutenant he fought earlier today. She had a huge burn scar covering a section of her left face, and her left eye is a discolored grey. Her mane is dyed a lovely marigold with shades of tangerine near the ends of it. She did nothing except for giving him a devilish grin,

"This lovely mare over here is my little sister, Twilight Sparkle. She is the Head Scientist of the Mystic Enchanters and overlooks all operations that involve magic." looking over to Twilight, she gave a very excited smile and waved. Giorno smiled back in return.

"The stallion standing against the wall is Captain Earth Steelhooves." The earth pony didn't even bother to look at Giorno before closing his eyes and giving an annoyed "Hmph." Although his build and frame are imposing, being the biggest in terms of muscles in the room, excluding Celestia.

"Moving on, to the right, the one in the black overalls is Chief Master Sergeant Hailing Blizzard, and the stallion bearing spears on his back is Captain Metal Jacket, "Metal Jacket had a long flowing mane that slings over to his chest, carrying a loadout of three long but sharp spears hanging on his back. He also wore a brown cloak covering his underlying armor with long cargo pants that reached his shin.

Hailing Blizzard, on the other hand, wore a black and dark blue variation of the Wonderbolt attire totally, with slightly less armored plating and carrying more pouches as far as Giorno could see.

"Alright, now that the introductions are over, we can talk about bringing reinforcements from your world over to ours." Celestia took over as she walked over to the complete oval-shaped table in the middle of the room, which caused everyone who isn't already at the table to start making their way around.

All except for Steelhooves.

"Princess, what do you mean reinforcements? isn't this uh.. 'human' our help?" Blizzard questioned, but just as the princess was about to respond, she was rudely interrupted by Steelhooves.

"I'm sorry, princess, but I don't see the reason to trust him." Celestia knew this was coming. It was inevitable. She turned to face Steelhooves with a saddened face.

"Captain Steelhooves, I can reassure you that Giorno does not mean any harm. He isn't a changeling, nor is he trying to manipulate us either. I can confirm it since it was Twilight and I that summoned him here after all." she turned to look at Twilight, signaling her to support Celestia's claim, who gave a quick nod to confirm what Celestia was true.

"That's right, Captain, I was the one who proposed the idea and overlooked the entire experiment," Twilight replied immediately.

"Yea, and any changeling drone could have just mixed and matched some random combination of creatures to achieve... that monstrosity." Giorno kept his cool, though he was blatantly insulted in the presence of a military organization's leaders. He had to keep his composure if he'd wanted them to trust him and make any connections. So Giorno tried to reason with the earth pony.

"Captain Steelhooves, I can understand where you are coming from. But I can assure you that I mean no harm. After hearing about the war, I wish to help you in your endeavors before returning to my homeworld. I have no other motives for being here." getting up from his position on the wall, Steelhooves made his way over to Giorno, staring straight into his soul.

"And how can I trust that you won't turn on us? Or keeping a secret agenda? Saying something is very different from proving it, not to mention it's challenging to put a nation's future into the hands of an unknown alien." Steelhooves Stopped directly in front of Giorno. He looked down at him with an intensity that could melt through any metal, and yet Giorno looked back at him with the same poker face he had.

"The fact that you beat Lieutenant Dash in one on one combat, knocking her out cold and in the process breaking some of her ribs, all of that with a single punch alone already proves you're quite strong for something your size. Not only that, but you bested another veteran Wonderbolt in speed, which demonstrates you're quite agile for something that doesn't have wings. From what I've heard when reinforcements came back from your little fight, you were standing all over the Lieutenant, victorious." Grabbing Giorno's collar, he leaned closer to him.

"So with all that in mind, remind me why I should trust an alien's word to help us in this war that doesn't even concern you? Maybe you are a changeling in disguise-" Celestia was about to intervene, but「G.E.R」materialized its arm and grabbed Steelhooves's arm that's currently grasping onto Giorno's collar with enough force that the arm was starting to bruise. The echoing voice of「G.E.R」filled the room, cold and threatening, it spoke.

"Do you want to know what happened to the last person who threatened my user? he suffered a fate worse than death."

Caught off-guard, Steelhooves let go of Giorno, which inturn「G.E.R」 let go of his now quickly bruising arm, staring at him. This action caused everyone in the room to arm themselves with spears, spells, and blades, but with a raise of Celestia's arm, the Captain's weapons lowered reluctantly.

"You couldn't even hope to best me in combat, so I suggest you refrain from your empty threats. Captain Steelhooves."

"What is that?" Spitfire watched the golden floating figure beside Giorno, confused, yet it piques her interest.

"It's a Stand, a physical personification of one's spiritual energy. Its name is「Gold Experience Requiem」, my stand." this explanation caught everyone's attention, turning their gazes from Giorno to「G.E.R」and gawking at it in all of its glory, its surrounded by a flaring shining crystal-diamond-like aura.

「G.E.R」looked back at the leaders of Equestria with dominance.

Stand name: 「Gold Experience Requiem」

(Current) Stand stats:
Power: B
Speed: A
Range: B
Durability: C
Precision: B
Development Potential: A

Stand Master: Giorno Giovanna

「Gold Experience Requiem」, the Stand that could create life.

Info and Stand Ability:
Life Giver-「G.E.R」is able to breathe life into any non-living things, for instance, it can transform a piece of luggage into a frog or a lighter into a rose. Essentially creating life from nothing. These lifeforms can persist for a long time. Even at a significant distance away from Giorno.「 G.E.R」can also freely cancel this effect and return the object to its original inorganic state. Furthermore, when any of the life forms are attacked, the damage is reflected at the attacker.

Life Shot-「G.E.R」can also infuse life energy into an already living target, this process causes an individual's thought process and senses to accelerate significantly to such a point where the individual would perceive everything else to move slowly. However, their body would not keep up with the sudden surge of mental speed, thus giving them an out-of-body experience.

Healing- Creatively using his Life-Giver ability, Giorno could create distinct body parts and organs out of inorganic matter and assimilate them into place into the body of an injured individual. Therefore he can heal gruesome wounds through various means, though this isn't really healing, just replacing what has been damaged. Additionally, Giorno could also use this ability to heal himself.

"So this is your Stand, Giorno? I believe I did not get a chance to see it fully." Celestia was a little unsettled by its appearance and aura, though so was everybody else in the room.

"Argh! damn, I knew you couldn't be trusted." Steelhooves heaved under his breath, now having a severely bruised arm. Giorno stepped over to him.

"I apologize for bruising your arm, but I'd suggest that you don't make a fool of yourself any further. I came to help aid you in your war against a tyrant, not to start a conflict against Equestria's leaders here. Let me, and I'll heal you." 「G.E.R」reached out to Steelhooves's bruised arm, and a soft golden light covered his arm.

"ARGGGHHHHHH ARE YOU TRYING TO BURN MY ARM OFF?! WHY DOES IT HURT SO MUCH?!" Steelhooves threw his head back from the pain, gritting his teeth, and gripped the base of his injured arm even harder, a drop of a tear forming at the corner of his eye.

"I said I'd heal you. I never said anything about how painful It's going to be." With that, the golden glow subsided, and Giorno withdrew「G.E.R」's hand away from the now fully repaired arm. Steelhooves walked over to an open seat at the round table while hugging his recently recovered arm, the pain still present in his groans; however, Giorno couldn't care less and turn to met Celestia,

"Princess, about the war. I wish to aid your forces alone. I do not want to drag my companions or relatives into this." Celestia was visibly confused from this,

"Giorno, I know that you are a very formidable combatant, but even with something as strong as「Gold Experience Requiem」, you're still no match for Sombra, let alone his Generals."

"It's quite alright, Princess. Frankly, I'm not at my full potential yet. It seems that transporting to this world has dampened and weakened my Stand's full capability. This was the main reason I didn't want to bring more of my allies to this world to aid me. They would be a liability until they fully recovered their strength and until I regain my full strength. I can still provide support through healing with my「Gold Experience Requiem」to your forces. But I do have a question, after this, I am still able to go back to my homeworld?"

"Of course you can. We can open a portal there anytime. But for now, I suppose we should plan our next course of action. Giorno, how far are your healing abilities go before reaching their limit?"

"None, but I do need information regarding pony anatomy and structure if you desire for me to heal more complex injuries and wounds."

"Certainly, I will arrange a maid to deliver you a book as soon as possible. You may leave and roam around the Palace in the meantime. Additionally, I will inform my forces about your presence so they wouldn't be shocked when they see you."

"That's good to know. I'll take my leave then." he bowed to the Princess of the Sun before exiting the room. Giorno looked both ways, deciding to head the same way he and Celestia had come from and walking around and exploring the castle for a bit.

"I do hope I can get this over with as quickly as possible. I already miss Naples,"

The Dungeons of the Crystal Empire

"Agghh, where am I?" getting up and looking around, Valentine seemed to be in a jail cell. Before he was knocked out, he could remember throwing Giorno off into a dense world, but everything after that seemed to be hazy. But before he could do anything else, black mist filled the room, purple smoke emitted from the corner, its two green eyes with red pupils, and a deep voice echoed around him.

"Ahh, so you're awake?"

Author's Note

little something to help ya better portray the branches and military groups in the Forces.

(This chapter is heavily edited)